Gideon MBA

Garland TX ***** • 832-***-****)

adx4se@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Talented SAFe Agilist, a coach, and certified Business analyst, Scrum master with over 8 years of experience working in different cloud domains such as AWS IT infrastructure, Azure, Banking, finance, service delivery, energy, Not leaving out Health care systems, etc. Skilled at facilitating complex projects using Agile methods. Facilitating conversation for cloud-native, on-prem & hybrid solutions, helping customers build Secured, Elastic, Scalable, and Fault Tolerance infrastructure in the cloud. Laser focused on driving continuous improvement and creating high-performing teams. I also hold great knowledge of SDLC from the planning processes right up to the operation and maintenance stage.

Core Competencies

•SAFe frameworks

•Team Leadership & Development

•Process Improvement

•Agile Methodology

Gathering Requirements

Analyzing Data

•Decision-making

•Mentoring

•Agile Development

• Conflict Resolution

• Operational excellence

• Business Planning and Analysis • Problem-Solving

• Excellent Communication

• Analytical Thinking Skills

• Time management

• Stakeholder Management

• System Development

• Creative thinking Skills

• Software design

• Status reporting

• Product Roadmap

Technical Skills

Agile Engineering Practices: Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, XP Framework, TDD, CI/CD.

Agile management tools - JIRA, Jira Align, Confluence, SharePoint, Tableau, Rally, EnterpriseOne, Version one, Microsoft Outlook

Technologies _ HTML, CSS, JavaScript, REST, jQuery, AWS, AZURE,

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF BAMENDA

Bachelor in Business Admin, 2014

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Associate project management (CAPM)®

Professional Scrum Master (PSM)®

Certified SAFe 5.0 Advanced Scrum Master. (Scaled Agile)

Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (CSSGB)®

Certified Tableau Desktop specialist.

Certified Business Analyst

Professional Experience

FedEx, Memphis, Tennessee OCT 2021 – Present

Sr. Scrum Master/Kanban master,

Helped in the transformation Process from a waterfall mindset to Agile, coaching the team on the various Metrics to help in Product delivery and Maintenance and formed a self-sustained team

Worked and coached on product management while working closely with the product owner to gather requirements from the stakeholders, and users for the product backlog and understanding of the business process.

Act as a mentor in the development and implementation of Kanban.

Facilitate adoption of Lean Thinking, including visualization and continuous optimization of delivery flow using the Kanban Methodology

Aggregates Agile team objectives and progress and published to business and all team members to ensure visibility and transparency

Facilitate and participate in scaled events, including cross-team planning, delivery synchronization, and systems-level inspect & adapt

Continuous improvement of process and practice through collaboration with team and organizational leaders to identify and implement improvements.

Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.

Facilitated and coached to draft, track progress and continuously improve on Objective and Key Results (OKRs)

TD Bank, Alexandria Virginia, SEPT 2019 – AUG 2021

Scrum Master

Coached, guided, and taught scrum methodology and agile framework to team members, while periodically accessing scrum team maturity for continuous improvement

Assisted in implementing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) in TD Bank

Coached two scrum teams during the early stage of transitioning to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Managed and maintained issue tracking systems for my teams, while working closely with Release Train Engineer with release activities

Promote SAFe quality practices and help my team improve and take responsibility for their actions.

Worked with cross-functional teams in different avenues (Scrum of Scrums, PI Planning Events, ART Syncs) to align our sprint cadence towards achieving a common goal, and identify and coordinate dependencies before the PI planning Event.

Assisted the Product Owner on process-related work in backlog refinement, prioritizing user stories in JIRA, and continuous delivery of features, goals, and milestones.

Partnered with key stakeholders in backlog prioritization as well as tracking and reporting metrics, providing visibility to the team and stakeholders, ensuring a data-driven approach to decision-making.

Neji organization, San Francisco, Cali OCT 2018 – SEPT 2019

Scrum Master/ Business analyst

Worked with the stakeholders, customers, and users in identifying and documenting Epics.

Effectively communicated weekly project status using the Burndown charts to the business leadership, while recognizing the problem definition as part of continuous process improvement towards the business continuity of the organization

Coached Self-managed teams and ensured Agile/Scrum implementation methodology, practices, values, and framework are adhered to by team members.

Tracked and managed all change requests taking them through the complete change request lifecycle Backlog Items (PBIs) using techniques like MoSCoW and estimated Story Points using Planning Poker.

Successfully removed obstacle for the cross-functional team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solution. Customer provided positive feedback.

Mentored and coached business analysts, developers in applying agile principles and practices to achieve team unity and high performance.

Assisted the PO in setting realistic project expectations and in evaluating the impact of changes on the organization, and plan accordingly by conducting project-related presentations.

Oversaw and managed implementation of various agile techniques such as TDD, BDD, Automated Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and DevOps Support all inter and intra-team communication.

SunTrust Trust Bank. Nov2016 – AUG 2018

Scrum Master / Jr project manager

Helped in the transformation Process from a waterfall mindset to Agile, coaching the team on the various Metrics to help in Product delivery and Maintenance and forming a self-sustained team

Worked closely with the product owner to gather requirements from the stakeholders, and users for the product backlog and understanding of the business process.

Act as a mentor to ensure development teams work toward the core Scrum principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

Partnered with the Product Owner and agile team to understand, identify, and document the business opportunity through non-ambiguous, testable stories.

Cloud Card/Care First

Scrum Master/Project coordinator Jan 2015 -Nov 2016

Great work experience with the engineering team in providing security to users either by determining what privileges they have and the different authentication options

Work with the team to provide support to the client’s app used in accessing their medical records while complying with HIPPA rules and policies

Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan using Project management tools such as MS

Project/JIRA/Smart sheets.

Great at conducting business analysis and writing user stories with respect to clients’ demands and following the agile methodology.

Maintain HIPPA at all times

Ensure Implementation of appropriate security control for Information systems based on NIST Special Publication 800-53

Work with system administrators to remediate (POA&Ms) findings. Ensure vulnerabilities and risks are

efficiently mitigated in accordance with the organization’s continuous monitoring Plan. within the security team dealing

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